Increasingly, media institutions like the New York Times and Condé Nast have been opening their pages and websites to 'native' ads designed to blend in with regular articles. Neil Macdonald asks if this is a good thing.

Hi, I'm really enjoying this- really informative, thanks. One suggestion - it is hugely frustrating when a real, live, responding face of a sensitive interviewee is replaced by a commercially back-dropped static image; an editor- probably the person reading this has painstakingly placed this static image many times during the interview when Bob is speaking and every time the dynamic reactions of Russell to what Bob is saying are replaced by essentially a blank screen I feel an opportunity for better articulation of the points being made has been lost... Much love, TM sounds amazing. Dan﻿

Excellent. Is there any way to stop these tools being appropriated by ruthless and parasitic marketing organisations? What is the effect of constant leverage through advertising of our empathetic responses? I'm thinking in particular of Sainsbury's despicable (but fairly common under current status quo) Christmas ad in UK where they used football players in WW1 trenches sharing Christmas to sell their supermarket... probably after some of their marketing team read about this kind of research...﻿

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